: Assistant professor resigned on her own, claims St Xavier’s VC amid row over Instagram photos #IndiaNEWS The vice chancellor of St Xavier’s University in Kolkata on Friday claimed that a former

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Assistant professor resigned on her own, claims St Xavier’s VC amid row over Instagram photos #IndiaNEWS
The vice chancellor of St Xavier’s University in Kolkata on Friday claimed that a former assistant professor, who had alleged she was forced to quit over “objectionable and inappropriate� Instagram photos, had resigned on her own, The Indian Express reported.“She was on probation,� Vice-Chancellor Felix Raj claimed in an interview with the newspaper. “She served us only for two months. She started in August 2021 and tendered her resignation in October. So there is no question of force.�He added that the university could have terminated her contract since she was on probation, but that they did not do so to “protect her career�.The former assistant professor, who holds doctorate degrees from two European universities, had alleged that Raj and Registrar Asish Mitra intimidated, bullied and made “sexually-coloured remarks� about her during a “kangaroo court� held on October 7.“Not only was I morally policed and harassed for over an hour...but I was also forced to tender my resignation,� the academic wrote in The Indian Express on August 17. “I was told that my failure to voluntarily resign would be punished by the lodging of a criminal case against me for putting up “objectionable� photographs.�Also read: Kolkata: Assistant professor says she was forced to quit university over leaked Instagram photosThe “kangaroo court� was held after...Read more

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